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Premium Member Canadian Icon, Emily Carr
 
"Art is art, nature is nature you cannot improve upon it ...
Pictures should be inspired by nature but made of the soul
of the artist.  It is the soul of the individual that counts."

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Categories: carr, day, international, women,
Form: Ode
Autumn By Jeanette Jones Based On Portrait No 5 Autumn In France By Emily Carr 1911
Autumn in France by Emily Carr 1911
PORTRAIT NO. 5

AUTUMN
by Jeanette Jones

Homes across the countryside, 
sits amidst of Autumn.

Whispers of wind play rapidly in the dark,
as leaves await for daylight to hit the ground.

Morning float into play, as the moon gives in, to the sun.

Admiration of...

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Categories: carr, seasons,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member How Dad Learned To Play
Dad was a great piano player
Grandpa Luther was a great man
He burned his wife’s Bible 
In 1942, when Colorado farmers
Decided all Germans and Japanese
Threatened them
My grandmother 
Got another Bible 
English version 
She didn’t have to hide
Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr
Was a great man, too
The only one...

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Categories: carr, courage, hero, humanity,
Form: Free verse

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